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Stop Lying

Michael Mineo is lying. I’ve said it beforeand I’ll say it again. That’s what I think. So why is a grand jury being started on the case? Does that mean there is truth behind Mineo’s claim? No. Here’s what I think is the story. Michael Mineo won’t release his medical records because they don’t support his lies. The grand jury…

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Prop. 5 and the Prison Guards’ Union

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) is the union for prison guards. I’m all for unions for prison guards. They have a tough job, horrible working conditions (uh, prison), and I certain would not want their job. I believe their union should have a loud and robust voice on such things as pay, working conditions, health-care benefits, and retirement…

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I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day a black man will rise to become the leader of this great nation and Al Sharpton will pray with a lying white man and say, “I don’t care if the cops were blacks and he was white or vice versa.” Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at…

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Dirt bikes in Baltimore

If you don’t live in Baltimore, it’s hard to understand just how big of a problem this is. If you do live in Baltimore, you may not realize that this problem doesn’t really exist anywhere else, at least not like it does in Baltimore. The bikes themselves weren’t illegal. But riding them is. It’s a strange Rite of Spring in…

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B.S.

There’s a story in many New York City papers today about accusations that 5 members of the NYPD stuck something up a guy’s ass ala Louima. Google any NY paper for the details. I’d just like to go on record as saying, “Bullshit. It ain’t true.” Do I know? No. You’ll just have to trust me on this one. Complete…

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Budget cutting? Take a hatchet to the war on drugs

Joe Conason has a good piece in Salon about the war on drugs. Want to cut waste and abuse? How about starting with the $50 billion we spend every year on the war on drugs. And why aren’t either McCain or Obama talking it?

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Shot cops and turnstile jumping

There’s more about that here. Also interesting (if it weren’t, would I post it?). “Officers Seeking Fare Evaders Often Find Worse Crimes.” And here’s a first hand account of the shooting from the L.T.

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Another Isolated Incident

“It’s not that SWAT tactics are always wrong. It’s that they’re frighteningly too often the first resort with the police departments that have them.” That’s from The Agitator. It’s worth reading.